Word: lichfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religious unrest, the Society of Friends came into being under the leadership of George Fox (1624-91), an itinerant preacher whose personal habits approached those of a latter-day John the Baptist. Once he walked barefoot through the streets on market day crying, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield...
Half way between Rugely and Lichfield, Staffordshire, is the village of Kings Bromley, where once a lady lived, and was wooed by one Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. Forthwith, she rode through the streets of Coventry at noon on a white horse and she had nothing on at all but the long-yellow hair which hung down from her head. She was the Lady Godiva, and her ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale...
...favor with most prominent American authors - heaven knows why! Hergesheimer, Lewis, Gather, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Dos Passes, et cetera - not one of them seems to care about carrying his or her characters through more than a single volume. Except for James Branch Cabell with his elaborate lineage of Lichfield, the pleasant custom of introducing a favorite character from one book into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume which is not merely a sequel...